HYDERABAD, Dec 23: Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan leader and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNA Sahebzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair has condemned the recent torching of six shrines in Sanjarpur (Punjab) and said that under a planned conspiracy, the Sunnis are being pushed against the wall in the country.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, he saw the shrine torching incident as a continuation of the conspiracy earlier manifested in the Faizan-i-Madina and Nishtar Park tragedies.

He said that on the one hand, the Ulema were being implicated in fabricated cases and on the other, the assassins and arsonists were roaming about freely.

The MNA warned that if the perpetrators of the heinous crimes were not arrested and punished, the Sunnis could lose patience and ‘consequences could be disastrous.’

He urged the Punjab government to ‘expose the enemies of Islam who torched the shrines, failing which the Ahl-i-Sunnat Jamaat will take things in its own hands and make the conspirators accountable.’

"Our silence should not be misconstrued as weakness" the MNA warned and added that the Sunnis were maintaining silence only in the larger interest of peace in the country.